The project will apply recent research in IEC technologies to the provision of time-critical high volume environmental information in the differing case study sectors of Health and Marine. It will provide a functional demonstrator in each case study using the same underlying Web Services architecture, evaluating standards for interoperability, scalability, data exchange, security and reliability. The DTI funding will bring together technologists, data producers and service providers through these case studies to showcase Web Services, provide technology transfer, promote best practice, and build new partnerships to innovate in priority sectors. The case studies will be used to promote early adoption routes and the technology outputs will add to the national resources in these areas. The projects Dissemination Plan will ensure that the outputs are exploited as widely as possible and that others involved in working with UK environmental data and information (both nationally and internationally) can make use of these research applications.